Last night I bummed into a friend, who teaches at a primary school in Tin Shui Wai. She told me that the workload is extremely heavy, and the hours are long. Hers is a full day school, and she doesn’t leave the school until 7-ish, nearly every school day of the week. I was always under the impression that full day schools start at around 0900 hours, but this is not the case. They start at 0800 hours like all other schools. It’s like slave work for these teachers.
(The Lady is often out of the house for 12 hours on school days, but this includes commuting time. Anyhow, overtime is pretty much compulsory for all school teachers these days.)
Then my friend told me she still takes work home, and her husband helps her with homework marking. Even her little girl helps with stamping the homework with the little rabbit rubber stamp. I jokingly told my friend that she’s turned her homework marking into a cottage industry.
(The Lady’s got heavy workload, and althou officially she could leave the office at 14:30 hours, more often than not she and her colleagues do 2+ hours of overtime everyday.)
I like teaching, and did a week of temp teacher shortly after I graduated. I was tempted to go into teaching, but am glad that I didn’t.